The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-31
news Items from Late Exchanges.


surgical operation performed. A large in
ternal tumor was removed by DR.. Salina,
a comparatively young man, whose dag
nosis proved perfectly correct. She was
an hour under the influence of chloroform
during the operation.
The subscriptions for the new Russian
Government loan have reached 100000
roubIes, of which sum per cent will be
allotted
The British steamship Benhope, from
Vera Cruz for New York, was burned 80
miles off Tyber Island on the 26th April.
The officers and crew were rescued and
brought to Savannah.
The west-bound Pacific express on the
Northern Pacific jumped the track near
Steele, D. T., May 1st; result one killed
and seven injured.
German is declared to be the official
, language of Austria.
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, the Tory mem
Der, who declares that the union between
Great Britain and Ireland will be main
tanned at all cost, is an American, raised
not far from Cape Cod, and participates
in the good fortune of his younger
brother who married Baroness Burdett-
Coutts.
Lord Duferin, one of the most skillful
and successful English diplomats, now in
Persia, is meeting the intrigue of Russian
diplomats to the best of his skill. He has
recently presented the Persian monarch
an elephant with handsome silver trap
pings. costing the Foreign Department
5000. This magnificent present has
given the English Minister the warm
friendship of the Shah. Lord Dufferin
proposes to follow up this policy by
making handsome presents to all the dis
affected princes. This policy does not, APP
parently, prevail in India, where the lead
ing rajahs, instead of being given presents,
have been commanded to make a sub
scription to the begging fund of the I'M
perial Institute.
Irish emigrants to the United States
last April numbered 1854.
The steamer John Knox, Captain Brolly,
from Glasgow for Montreal, foundered at
the channel of Newfoundland May I'd, and
all hands were lost.
The women in the Sultan's seragiio at
Constantinople have just been vaccinated.
One hundred and fifty operations took
place in a large hall under the superin-
tendence of four gigantic eunuchs. The
Italian surgeon, to whom the work was
confded, was stationed in front of a huge
screen and the women were concealed be-
hind it. A hole had been made in the
center of the screen just large enough to
allow an arm to pass through, and in this
manner arms of various colors and sizes
were presented to the operator in rapid
succession. 1t was utterly impossible for
the surgeon to get glimpse of his patients,
but in order to guard against chance of
his being able to see through the screen,
two eunuchs, who stood by the operator,
threw shawl over his face instantly as an
operation was concluded, and did not re-
move it till the next arm had been placed
in position.
The Rothschilds clan are by no means
delighted at the unconquerable resolution
of Helen de Rothschild, the only daughter
of the late Baron Solomon of Paris, to
marry Captain Van Smosseir, a young
officer in the Belgian army. The opposi-
ton of the young lady's mother and other
relatives will prevent the ceremony from
taking place before August. Mile. Helen
already possesses an immense fortune, and
hersdot will ultimately amount to 96,O00,-
0O0-a sum which her future husband has
only read of in romances. Mile. de Roths-
child has purchased the splendid hotel of
Baron Hirsch, near the Champs Elyssees,
as a future residence for herself and her
husband.
Advices from Scutari, Albania, state
that the Miridites have killed seven Turk
ish soldiers for interfering with the tomb
of a noted leader.
A dispatch from Perth, the capital of
Western Australia, says: A hurricane
swept the northeast coast on April 22d.
The pearl-fishing feet, numbering 400
boats, was destroyed and $50 persons per-
ished.
A dispatch from Cooktown, Australia, |
announces that the steamer Benton, of |
Singapore, was sunk in collision with |
bark off the island of Formosa, and that |
$50 persons were drowned. No Europeans |
were lost
The "Soleil'' says: Some Germans dis
armed Russian sentinels who tried to pre-
vent the Germans from crossing the |
SileSian frontier.
1t has been decided to extend the railway
from Lu-L'ai, near K'ai-ping, to TIentsin
and Taku. The decree announcing the de-
cision says the work will be done by Chi
nese themselves and not given to Euro
peans.
1t is said by the Tonquin papers that the
French and Chinese Commissioners have
come to an understanding over disputed
strip of territory near Cape Paklung, and
that the delimitation will soon be COM